Butterfly, beautiful to watch, difficult to train.
We SDK off every wall.
We're most likely to smack hands with each other and those beside us.
Fly's fun to sprint but no fun when the piano comes down
What did you do in practice today?
the breastroke lane
The Middle Distance Lane
The Backstroke Lane
The Butterfly Lane
The SDK Lane
The Taper Lane
The Distance Lane
The IM Lane
The Sprint Free Lane
The Pool Deck
We did some fly work in practice this morning (I usually pick backstroke whenever we do stroke, so this time my coach forced it on me!). We started with kicking and added stuff in from there. I think I finally figured out how to get two kicks into my stroke cycle (yeah, I know...I should have figured this out long ago! :blush:). Anyway, when it came time to add fly into the main set, my arms were so tired that I could barely do 25 before having to drill or drown. Ugh. I had been feeling so good in the drills. I guess it's just conditioning? I only swim 3 days a week because that is when the pool is available to me, so I'm not sure how much conditioning I'll be able to build up in that time. Thoughts?
I don't think 3 days a week will do it. I can really feel it when I take two days off in a row; something I try to avoid whenever possible.
There is one thing I always do when training fly, though: Breathe every stroke. Like Michael Phelps, I NEED AIR! If I breathe every other stroke, I'm toast after 50 yards; I just can't do it with my 51 year old lungs. :drowning:
Another thing I do when my arms get really tired and heavy is only pull to my waist, rather than all the way through. I then push them out to the side at my waist to get them out of the water for the recovery.
Whether this advice is correct or not, it works for me. :2cents:
We did some fly work in practice this morning (I usually pick backstroke whenever we do stroke, so this time my coach forced it on me!). We started with kicking and added stuff in from there. I think I finally figured out how to get two kicks into my stroke cycle (yeah, I know...I should have figured this out long ago! :blush:). Anyway, when it came time to add fly into the main set, my arms were so tired that I could barely do 25 before having to drill or drown. Ugh. I had been feeling so good in the drills. I guess it's just conditioning? I only swim 3 days a week because that is when the pool is available to me, so I'm not sure how much conditioning I'll be able to build up in that time. Thoughts?
I don't think 3 days a week will do it. I can really feel it when I take two days off in a row; something I try to avoid whenever possible.
There is one thing I always do when training fly, though: Breathe every stroke. Like Michael Phelps, I NEED AIR! If I breathe every other stroke, I'm toast after 50 yards; I just can't do it with my 51 year old lungs. :drowning:
Another thing I do when my arms get really tired and heavy is only pull to my waist, rather than all the way through. I then push them out to the side at my waist to get them out of the water for the recovery.
Whether this advice is correct or not, it works for me. :2cents:
